BMC Medical Ethics

Papers
(The median citation count of BMC Medical Ethics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research481
Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study116
Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care108
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries58
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension50
What are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?42
Cross-sectional survey of surrogate decision-making in Japanese medical practice42
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia40
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV40
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda40
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review39
Ethical considerations for involving adolescents in biomedical HIV prevention research39
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study34
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees34
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study33
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs32
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments31
“Everything has been tried and his heart can’t recover…”: A Descriptive Review of “Do Everything!” in the Archive of Ontario Consent and Capacity Board29
Being torn by inevitable moral dilemma: experiences of ICU nurses28
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania28
Medical staff’s sense of awareness of informed consent for adolescent cancer patients and the need for decision-making support practiced from the perspective of trauma-informed approach27
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model26
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay26
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region26
Differing needs for Advance Care Planning in the Veterans Health Administration: use of latent class analysis to identify subgroups to enhance Advance Care Planning via Group Visits for veterans25
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement24
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives24
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study24
Governance frameworks for COVID-19 research ethics review and oversight in Latin America: an exploratory study23
Ethics education to support ethical competence learning in healthcare: an integrative systematic review22
How to deal with the criterion of severe mental distress for late termination of pregnancy? A scoping literature review and a content analysis of clinical ethics consultations21
The dual role dilemma of liver transplantation health care professionals21
A qualitative focus group study on legal experts’ views regarding euthanasia requests based on an advance euthanasia directive20
Physicians’ legal knowledge of informed consent and confidentiality. A cross-sectional study20
Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation20
Clinical ethics consultations: a scoping review of reported outcomes20
The search for the principle of justice for infertile couples: characterization of the brazilian population and bioethical discussion20
Exploring knowledge and attitudes toward electronic informed consent among clinical trial participants in China: a cross-sectional study19
Investigating ethical considerations in the communication network of married women undergone hysterectomy: instrumentation of a questionnaire19
Professional and academic profile of the Brazilian research ethics committees19
A quantitative study of nurses perception to advance directive in selected private and public secondary healthcare facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria19
The challenges of keeping clinicians unaware of their participation in a national, cluster-randomised, implementation trial19
The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions18
Moral approval of xenotransplantation in Egypt: associations with religion, attitudes towards animals and demographic factors18
Descriptions of risks and benefits of HIV vaccine trials in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs): an integrative review18
Measuring moral distress in health professionals using the MMD-HP-SPA scale17
Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations17
Ownership of individual-level health data, data sharing, and data governance16
Understanding drug exceptional access programs (DEAPs) in Canada, and their associated social and political issues16
Genetic/genomic testing: defining the parameters for ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI)16
Conceptualizing the impact of moral case deliberation: a multiple-case study in a health care institution for people with intellectual disabilities16
Ethical considerations for HIV remission clinical research involving participants diagnosed during acute HIV infection16
Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study16
Differences between doctors of medicine and dental medicine in the perception of professionalism on social networking sites: the development of the e-professionalism assessment compatibility index (eP16
Ethical concerns when recruiting children with cancer for research: Swedish healthcare professionals’ perceptions and experiences16
Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia16
How prehospital emergency personnel manage ethical challenges: the importance of confidence, trust, and safety15
How to reveal disguised paternalism: version 2.015
Operationalising a real-time research ethics approach: supporting ethical mindfulness in agriculture-nutrition-health research in Malawi15
Ethical considerations and concerns in the implementation of AI in pharmacy practice: a cross-sectional study15
Biases in bioethics: a narrative review14
Examining study participants’ decision-making and ethics-related experiences in a dietary community randomized controlled trial in Malawi14
The genetic technologies questionnaire: lay judgments about genetic technologies align with ethical theory, are coherent, and predict behaviour14
High-reward, high-risk technologies? An ethical and legal account of AI development in healthcare14
Analysis of ethical considerations of COVID‑19 vaccination: lessons for future14
Patient-centered empirical research on ethically relevant psychosocial and cultural aspects of cochlear, glaucoma and cardiovascular implants – a scoping review14
Investigating impact of consulting midwives on maternal rights charter on perception of respectful maternity care and postpartum blues among postpartum women: a quasi-experimental study14
Cardiac organoids do not warrant additional moral scrutiny13
Managing community engagement in research in Uganda: insights from practices in HIV/AIDS research13
Exploring the foundations and influences of nurses’moral courage: a scoping review13
Performance of IRBs in China: a survey on IRB employees and researchers’ experiences and perceptions13
The voice of the profession: how the ethical demand is professionally refracted in the work of general practitioners13
Third-party refusal of medical treatment – a critical analysis of case report from Islamic ethical perspectives13
Moral distress and positive experiences of ICU staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned13
The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress13
‘Guidance should have been there 15 years ago’ research stakeholders’ perspectives on ancillary care in the global south: a case study of Malawi13
Exploring health and disease concepts in healthcare practice: an empirical philosophy of medicine study12
Questionable research practices of medical and dental faculty in Pakistan – a confession12
A review of clinical ethics consultations in a regional healthcare system over a two-year timeframe12
Willingness toward post-mortem body donation to science at a Mexican university: an exploratory survey12
Participant recall and understandings of information on biobanking and future genomic research: experiences from a multi-disease community-based health screening and biobank platform in rural South Af12
Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study12
Children’s voices on their values and moral dilemmas when being cared and treated for cancer– a qualitative interview study12
Public attitudes towards genomic data sharing: results from a provincial online survey in Canada12
Ethical dilemmas in prioritizing patients for scarce radiotherapy resources12
Ethical challenges in conducting research in low and middle income setting during public health emergencies: a qualitative evidence of a COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of Iran12
How is physicians’ implicit prejudice against the obese and mentally ill moderated by specialty and experience?12
Travelling to die: views, attitudes and end-of-life preferences of Israelis considering receiving aid-in-dying in Switzerland11
Cross-cultural validation of the IRB Researcher Assessment Tool: Chinese Version11
Informed consent in psychotherapy: a survey on attitudes among psychotherapists in Switzerland11
Experience and perspectives of end-of-life care discussion and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment of Korea (POLST-K): a cross-sectional study11
How does patient-centered hospital culture affect clinical physicians’ medical professional attitudes and behaviours in Chinese public hospitals: a cross-sectional study?11
“She was finally mine”: the moral experience of families in the context of trisomy 13 and 18– a scoping review with thematic analysis11
Surgical consent, perception of the patients who underwent a surgical operation in the Kurdistan region, Iraq11
Factors influencing practitioners’ who do not participate in ethically complex, legally available care: scoping review11
Developing a digital informed consent app: opportunities and challenges of a new format to inform and obtain consent in public health research11
Risks and benefits of engaging youth living with HIV in research: perspectives from Kenyan Youth, caregivers, and subject matter experts11
Development and validation of an instrument to measure pediatric nurses' adherence to ethical codes10
Healthcare practitioners as accomplices: a qualitative study of gender affirmation in a context of ambiguous regulation in Indonesia10
Planning ahead for research participation: survey of public and professional stakeholders’ views about the acceptability and feasibility of advance research planning10
Emergency separation of conjoined twins in a tertiary hospital in Indonesia: three case reports10
The public impact of academic and print media portrayals of TMS: shining a spotlight on discrepancies in the literature10
Conscientious objection and barriers to abortion within a specific regional context - an expert interview study9
Encompassing trust in medical AI from the perspective of medical students: a quantitative comparative study9
Exploring barriers and ethical challenges to medical data sharing: perspectives from Chinese researchers9
Ethical decision-making climate, moral distress, and intention to leave among ICU professionals in a tertiary academic hospital center9
Japan should initiate the discussion on voluntary assisted dying legislation now9
Increasing efficiency and well-being? a systematic review of the empirical claims of the double-benefit argument in socially assistive devices9
Exploring defensive medicine: examples, underlying and contextual factors, and potential strategies - a qualitative study9
Achieving inclusive research priority-setting: what do people with lived experience and the public think is essential?9
Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review8
Attitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders8
Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan8
Should healthcare professionals include aspects of environmental sustainability in clinical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons8
Physician-reported characteristics, representations, and ethical justifications of shared decision-making practices in the care of paediatric patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness8
Oncologists’ perspective on advance directives, a French national prospective cross-sectional survey – the ADORE study8
A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law8
Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public8
To donate or not to donate? Future healthcare professionals’ opinions on biobanking of human biological material for research purposes8
Ethical issues in unprofessional behavior of residents who dispute dismissal: ten year analysis of case law in hospital-based specialties8
Ethical implications of AI-driven clinical decision support systems on healthcare resource allocation: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ perspectives8
A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review8
Public attitudes toward the research use and storage of residual dried blood spots from newborn screening in China8
Would you consider donating your left-over embryos to treat Parkinson’s disease? Interviews with individuals that underwent IVF in Sweden8
Correction: Evaluating the understanding of the ethical and moral challenges of Big Data and AI among Jordanian medical students, physicians in training, and senior practitioners: a cross-sectional st8
Making complex decisions in uncertain times: experiences of Dutch GPs as gatekeepers regarding hospital referrals during COVID-19—a qualitative study7
Adolescent and parental proxy online record access: analysis of the empirical evidence based on four bioethical principles7
The impact of moral injury on healthcare workers’ career calling: exploring authentic self-expression, ethical leadership, and self-compassion7
Exploring the consent process among pregnant and breastfeeding women taking part in a maternal vaccine clinical trial in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study7
Junior medical doctors’ decision making when using advance care directives to guide treatment for people with dementia: a cross-sectional vignette study7
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and ethical design: public perceptions of trustworthiness of an AI-based decision-support tool in the context of intrapartum care7
Where the public health principles meet the individual: a framework for the ethics of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychiatry7
Moral conflicts from the justice and care perspectives of japanese nurses: a qualitative content analysis7
Forensic mental health professionals’ perceptions of their dual loyalty conflict: findings from a qualitative study7
“I haven’t had to bare my soul but now I kind of have to”: describing how voluntary assisted dying conscientious objectors anticipated approaching conversations with patients in Victoria, Australia7
Situational vulnerability within mental healthcare – a qualitative analysis of ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic7
It takes a pirate to know one: ethical hackers for healthcare cybersecurity7
Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents7
A literature review of non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare research and publication7
Biomedical engineering and ethics: reflections on medical devices and PPE during the first wave of COVID-197
Exploration of clinical ethics consultation in Uganda: a case study of Uganda Cancer Institute7
A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of implementing automated decision support tools for genomic data access7
A genetic researcher’s devil’s dilemma: Warn relatives about their genetic risk or respect confidentiality agreements with research participants?7
Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study7
Between hope and future planning: the dementia journey for care partners through the lens of relational autonomy7
Design and psychometric properties of a tool to assess Adherence to the Code of Ethics in Midwifery6
Ethical and practical considerations for cell and gene therapy toward an HIV cure: findings from a qualitative in-depth interview study in the United States6
“Data makes the story come to life:” understanding the ethical and legal implications of Big Data research involving ethnic minority healthcare workers in the United Kingdom—a qualitative study6
Future healthcare providers and professionalism on social media: a cross-sectional study6
Diversity in decentralized clinical trials: prioritizing inclusion of underrepresented groups6
Dealing with sexual boundary violation in mental healthcare institutions by government policies: the case of Flanders, Belgium6
Family satisfaction with the end-of-life discussions and resuscitation orders for patients with severe COVID-19: a multicenter study in Saudi Arabia6
Mapping ethical issues encompassing end-of-life care for persons experiencing severe and persistent mental illness: a qualitative study6
Patient-centred care and patient autonomy: doctors’ views in Chinese hospitals6
Practice variation in the informed consent procedure for thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke: a survey among neurologists and neurology residents6
The research relationship: participant perspectives on consent in biobanking6
The ethical requirement of explainability for AI-DSS in healthcare: a systematic review of reasons6
Which features of patients are morally relevant in ventilator triage? A survey of the UK public6
Guardians and research staff experiences and views about the consent process in hospital-based paediatric research studies in urban Malawi: A qualitative study6
Ethical considerations during Mpox Outbreak: a scoping review6
The impact of reporting magnetic resonance imaging incidental findings in the Canadian alliance for healthy hearts and minds cohort6
“Age independent, but person dependent”: a Swiss interview-based study on the meaning of good parenthood at an advanced parental age6
Bioethics training needs assessment for HIV research in vulnerable populations: a survey of trainees at college of health sciences, Makerere university6
Attitudes on euthanasia among medical students and doctors in Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study6
Research, education, ethics consultation: evaluating a Bioethics Unit in an Oncological Research Hospital6
Developing new ways to listen: the value of narrative approaches in empirical (bio)ethics6
Consent to organ offers from public health service “Increased Risk” donors decreases time to transplant and waitlist mortality6
Evaluating cognitive bias in clinical ethics supports: a scoping review6
Exploring bias risks in artificial intelligence and targeted medicines manufacturing6
Artificial Intelligence to support ethical decision-making for incapacitated patients: a survey among German anesthesiologists and internists5
Urban people’s preferences for life-sustaining treatment or artificial nutrition and hydration in advance decisions5
REPRESENT: REPresentativeness of RESearch data obtained through the ‘General Informed ConsENT’5
Impact of the life-sustaining treatment decision act on organ donation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in South Korea: a multi-centre retrospective study5
Medical ethics in childbirth: a structural equation modeling approach in south of Iran5
Patient priorities for fulfilling the principle of respect in research: findings from a modified Delphi study5
A case study of Muslims’ perspectives of expanded terminal sedation:addressing the elephant in the room5
Integrating ethics in AI development: a qualitative study5
Ethics, orthodoxies and defensive practice: a cross-sectional survey of nurse’s decision-making surrounding CPR in deceased inpatients without Do Not Resuscitate orders5
The high-priority ethical issues of advanced paternal age: perspectives from a panel of experts in the fields of men reproduction and family building5
Why did not all studies conducted during Darfur’s armed conflict obtain ethics approval? Insights from a qualitative study5
Ethical self-efficacy among healthcare professionals caring for people with dementia: a brief pre- and post-report on the CARE intervention5
Exploring the ethical decision-making experience of caregivers of end stage cancer patients in Iran: a phenomenological study5
Institutional review boards in Saudi Arabia: the first survey-based report on their functions and operations5
Citizen attitudes to non-treatment decision making: a Norwegian survey5
The missing voices in the conscientious objection debate: British service users’ experiences of conscientious objection to abortion5
Patients accept therapy using embryonic stem cells for Parkinson’s disease: a discrete choice experiment5
Operationalization of assent for research participation in pre-adolescent children: a scoping review5
Researching the future: scenarios to explore the future of human genome editing5
Construction and validation of a predictive model for the acceptance of kidney xenotransplantation among patients awaiting kidney transplantation: a cross-sectional study from China5
A scoping review of ethics review processes during public health emergencies in Africa5
Shared care planning in people with cognitive disorders and dementia: a survey among patients and caregivers in Italy5
Communication of patients’ and family members’ ethical concerns to their healthcare providers5
Disclosure of true medical information: the case of Bangladesh5
Psychometric testing of the Swedish version of the measure of moral distress for healthcare professionals (MMD-HP)5
Perception of the ethical climate among hospital employees in a public healthcare system: a cross-sectional survey at the University Hospital of Split, Croatia5
Decision-making ethics in regards to life-sustaining interventions: when physicians refer to what other patients decide5
Should Artificial Intelligence be used to support clinical ethical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons5
AI-driven decision support systems and epistemic reliance: a qualitative study on obstetricians’ and midwives’ perspectives on integrating AI-driven CTG into clinical decision making5
Supporting patient decision-making in non-invasive prenatal testing: a comparative study of professional values and practices in England and France5
Organ donation after euthanasia starting at home in a patient with multiple system atrophy5
Fragmented understanding: exploring the practice and meaning of informed consent in clinical trials in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam5
Patients acceptance and comprehension to written and verbal consent (PAC–VC)5
“No, it is not a breach of my oath because it is beyond my control; I use the policies that are in place.” Ethical challenges faced by healthcare workers in the provision of healthcare to cross-border4
Informed or misinformed consent and use of modified texture diets in dysphagia4
Researchers experience and views on participants’ comprehension of informed consent in clinical trials in Malawi: a descriptive qualitative study4
Attitudes and values among the Swedish general public to using human embryonic stem cells for medical treatment4
Effect of healthcare professionals’ perceived occupational stigma on organizational citizenship behavior: a moral cleansing perspective4
Justification for requiring disclosure of diagnoses and prognoses to dying patients in saudi medical settings: a Maqasid Al-Shariah-based Islamic bioethics approach4
Radiation in an emergency situation: attempting to respect the patient’s beliefs as reported by a minor4
The view of Hong Kong parents on secondary use of dried blood spots in newborn screening program4
Patients’ views on using human embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease: an interview study4
Are investigators’ access to trial data and rights to publish restricted and are potential trial participants informed about this? A comparison of trial protocols and informed consent materials4
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the ethics in medical research among Moroccan interns and resident physicians4
Ethics support for ethics support: the development of the Confidentiality Compass for dealing with moral challenges concerning (breaching) confidentiality in moral case deliberation4
Ethics, design, and implementation criteria of digital assistive technologies for people with dementia from a multiple stakeholder perspective: a qualitative study4
“That’s just Future Medicine” - a qualitative study on users’ experiences of symptom checker apps4
The ethics of machine learning-based clinical decision support: an analysis through the lens of professionalisation theory4
Assent, parental consent and reconsent for health research in Africa: thematic analysis of national guidelines and lessons from the SickleInAfrica registry4
General practitioner residents and patients end-of life: involvement and consequences4
Facing a request for assisted death - views of Finnish physicians, a mixed method study4
Students’ attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion: a cross-cultural study in three Mediterranean countries4
Capacity of community advisory boards for effective engagement in clinical research: a mixed methods study4
Views on sharing mental health data for research purposes: qualitative analysis of interviews with people with mental illness4
The role of bioethics services in paediatric intensive care units: a qualitative descriptive study4
“It is difficult to be absolutely sure one way or the other.” – a mixed method study on Finnish physicians’ views on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide4
Ethics framework for citizen science and public and patient participation in research4
Assessment of decision-making autonomy in chronic pain patients: a pilot study4
Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia4
Extremely premature birth bioethical decision-making supported by dialogics and pragmatism4
Evaluation of the surgical informed consent for elective and emergency surgeries in obstetrics and gynaecology in Saudi Arabia4
Strengthening ethical oversight in genomics and biobanking: a retrospective analysis of research practices in Zimbabwe4
What outcomes of moral case deliberations are perceived important for healthcare professionals to handle moral challenges? A national cross-sectional study in paediatric oncology4
Correction: Technology solutionism in paediatric intensive care: clinicians’ perspectives of bioethical considerations4
Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey4
A QALY is [still] a QALY is [still] a QALY?4
Speculation fit for a king? Medical announcements from the British royal family and the recurring ethical complexities of personal privacy and public commentary from physicians4
“I am in favour of organ donation, but I feel you should opt-in”—qualitative analysis of the #options 2020 survey free-text responses from NHS staff toward opt-out organ donation legislation in Englan4
Trust and digital privacy in healthcare: a cross-sectional descriptive study of trust and attitudes towards uses of electronic health data among the general public in Sweden4
Exploring patients’ rights awareness and implementations amongst hospitalized patients in Northern Palestine: insights from a local perspective4
Goods, causes and intentions: problems with applying the doctrine of double effect to palliative sedation4
Project DECIDE, part II: decision-making places for people with dementia in Alzheimer’s disease: supporting advance decision-making by improving person-environment fit4
Regulating professional ethics in a context of technological change4
Determining capacity of people with dementia to take part in research: an electronic survey study of researcher confidence, competence and training needs3
Between empowerment, patronization, and surveillance. A semi-structured interview study with persons with dementia and family caregivers on the empowering opportunities and perils of intelligent assis3
Do mental or somatic diagnoses influence emotional response and perception of physician-assisted suicide in Germany? A vignette-based experiment3
“Many roads lead to Rome and the Artificial Intelligence only shows me one road”: an interview study on physician attitudes regarding the implementation of computerised clinical decision support syste3
Sharing decisions amid uncertainties: a qualitative interview study of healthcare professionals’ ethical challenges and norms regarding decision-making in gender-affirming medical care3
Telling the truth to patients before hip fracture surgery3
Racial issues in psychiatry: a thematic analysis of an initial health equity educational activity for medical students3
The association between perceived hospital ethical climate and self-evaluated care quality for COVID-19 patients: the mediating role of ethical sensitivity among Chinese anti-pandemic nurses3
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